On Friday, October 12th in CARTO’s Brooklyn office we will be hosting our
Spatial Data Science Conference 2018. We are partnering again with the University of Chicago’s Center for Spatial Data Science to organize an exciting day of keynote addresses and lightning talks from experts and practitioners working with spatial data to solve real world problems.

In a previous post we introduced CARTO VL (beta), a new Javascript library for making vector-based, client-side visualizations. This new offering marks a significant advancement of in-browser functionality for Location Intelligence applications powered by CARTO.

When you use CARTO to visualize a data set, or to run an analysis, it looks fairly lovely and seamless: just one piece of software doing your bidding. But, in fact, CARTO is built from a multitude of open source pieces.

Traffic congestion is one of the biggest problems facing today’s cities, posing a serious challenge for traffic managers and urban planners. Accelerated population growth means that the
number of vehicles in cities is growing exponentially, and to fix a problem as complex as traffic congestion, municipal leaders need innovative solutions that understand today’s connected
commuter.

To celebrate World Water Day 2018, we partnered with Vizzuality to host WaterHack 2018. During this environmental and social datathon, participants analyzed and visualized survey data collected by ONGAWA, a NGO promoting human development and social change with the help of new data sharing technologies.

“Open data,” as a core value, is easy to endorse, but it is not always so easy to practice. This problem inspired last year’s NYC Open Data Week, a collaboration between NYC Open Data, BetaNYC, and the greater NYC civic tech community to organize a series of events, workshops, and presentations to raise awareness and provide lessons to the public on working with the nearly 2,000 available data assets. For NYC Open Data Week 2018, there is an even greater emphasis on “learning how to work in the open,” Adrienne Schmoeker explained,“versus merely managing an open government program.”

With over 100,000 attendees, the Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, and the team at CARTO is excited to be joining the festivities for the fifth straight year.

Good maps lie at the heart of any location application. When analyzing data on maps, proper design can be the difference between interesting and insightful.
But effective design is easier said than done.

Anticipation for one of the formative insider tech experiences is mounting. With 2,200 exhibitors and over 100,000 tech and mobile professionals from 200 countries descending on the Catalan capital, there are several sessions that will be truly revelatory for 2017 and years to come. Remember how crazy the industry went...

Today we are excited to introduce CARTOColors.
CARTOColors is a collection of intelligent color schemes that allow you to transform your raw data into actionable insights. Insights that help with decision making, foster exploration, and highlight the important stories in your data.

When working with maps and analysis, it’s essential to have effective control over the data layer hierarchy and the analysis attached. In CARTO Builder, managing your layers and analytical workflows has never been easier thanks to our intuitive layer list and analysis nodes. When working with more than one dataset,...

CARTO values unique users and the distinct uses of our platform, Builder and Engine. As a whole, our product is comprised of Builder—a web interface to interact with data, perform analysis, create maps, and share them internally within organizations or the world—and CARTO Engine APIs, which provide the spatial infrastructure...

With the incredibly powerful analytical capabilities of CARTO Builder, managing analytical workflows has never been more important. This is why we’ve created fast, easy, and functional ways of creating and understanding analysis. The layer list makes it easy to not only see the hierarchy of your layers, but also the...

Working with data can sometimes be a daunting task. Luckily, CARTO Builder’s analysis interface makes it easier than ever to perform data transformation, such as filtering, like never before. Filtering a dataset by column value can be done in just a few simple steps directly from CARTO Builder’s layer list...

The upcoming month presents an opportunity for reflection and giving thanks. Our November conferences, likewise, will reflect improvements made to CARTO’s Location Intelligence platform, and you’ll be thankful not to have missed these informative sessions.

Communicating numeric data as meaningful information to an audience without a background in data science can be difficult. But CARTO Builder’s Dashboard Widgets help make numeric data valuable for everyone.

CARTO began in Madrid, Spain in 2012, and has since expanded internationally with offices currently operating in Brooklyn, New York, Tartu, Estonia, and London, UK. We can now add Washington, D.C. to our ever-expanding list as CARTO goes to Washington.

The version control feature was integrated into the Share and Publish functions in CARTO Builder. Previously, when sharing or publishing a map, the published map automatically reflected the changes and edits as they were being made, and many users liked the ease at which their maps could be updated and...

CARTO Builder is becoming the easiest tool to predict and discover insights behind your location data. Making decisions using data-driven maps means more than just visualizing points or polygons. After plotting data in your maps, the real analysis begins as you employ widgets to visualize information in different ways and...

When working with dynamic maps they often contain an interactivity layer on top of the data, which allows you to click on different geospatial features to get more details about them like: how many products are sold in a particular store, how many people live at a specific location, and...

Eight years after the housing market crisis, and the enusing Great Recession of 2008, the real estate market is only now showing signs of recovery. In July 2016, for example, 654,000 single-family homes were sold, according to the latest census report from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban...

What innovations will 2017 have in store for Open Data? Join policymakers, data journalists, activists, NGOs, and both public and private sector stakeholders pioneering the future of Open Data in Madrid at the 2016 International Open Data Conference (6-7 October 2016).

We all know that September is the “back to school” month, and for us at CARTO it’s also the time when we begin traveling around the world! So it’s with great excitement that we would like to share the details of Fernando Carrasco’s journey around Asia and Australia. Our newest...

Recently we’ve written about creating Data-Driven Maps with CARTO Builder and apart from creating maps dependent on ramps for numeric values, sometimes you need to create maps that show geospatial features grouped visually under different categories. For example, when analyzing different types of crimes, stores by branch, or tweets by...

On July 7 we announced the rebranding of our company and simultaneously introduced a leap in our product’s evolution, CARTO Builder. This is the story of the process behind the new name that embodies this transformation.

At CARTO, we have a deep passion for sharing knowledge and discovering new insights through spatial analysis and visualization. With the release of our CARTO Builder and the ever deepening work of our team, we’re excited to share with the world some of the game-changing innovations we’re bringing to the...

For a long time, most GIS tools focused on creating maps with very small datasets. Now that we have more and more data we need better tools to visualize datasets that are way bigger, or that represent a high density amount of features for some particular places. For example, if...

Just a few weeks ago, we started giving access to the new CARTO Builder to people on our early access list. There have been some articles and positive reactions about it (Thanks!), so we wanted to share with you some things you can do with CARTO Builder.

It’s that time of year again! As professionals and technology lovers from across the world flock to Austin, TX for what has become the largest and most prolific event in music, film, and interactive technology, at CARTO we’re focused in on next year’s event to bring our brand of innovation...

Our Sales team in North America continues to grow quickly, and we’re excited to welcome some new faces with Brigitte Boyles, Tony Ferreira, Joe Pringle, Danny Sheehan, and Bryan Spiro to the CARTO family. Here’s a little more about them…

CARTO is going to Ecuador! On September 2nd we will be participating in the Hackathon for Natural Disaster Management in Quito, Ecuador. The hackathon’s mission is to use data and geospatial technology to create innovative solutions to disaster risk management challenges and humanitarian response plans with a focus on volcanic...

Each year the open source geo-lovers at CARTO (which is pretty much everyone) sets their sights to FOSS4G as a landmark event to not only share how we’re impacting the world of free and open source software for geospatial, but to also connect and learn with our fellow geo-aficionados. This...

During the last few months, to create a more compelling platform and provide all the necessary functionality for the new Builder, we’ve made some additions to our Engine. Before we began working on those additions, we learned from our clients, users, and partners how they could best leverage the Engine...

The Zika virus has been around for over 50 years but it wasn’t until this year that the World Health Organization declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, as the virus continues to spread to new areas.

Today we are excited to showcase and open the beta program for our new product—CARTO Builder. We’ve been working really hard on rethinking location data analysis techniques and have come up with some exciting new concepts that we believe will make them widely more accessible. But before the big reveal,...

CartoDB is more dedicated than ever to bringing web-based mapping solutions and advanced analytics to your geospatial data in the most intuitive and insightful way possible. We love engaging with the many communities around the world that we are proud to be a part of, so we are hitting the...

We will be in San Diego next week for the 2016 Esri User Conference. To hit the ground running, we are scheduling meetings to show off our latest technology, as well as hosting a Happy Hour on Monday, June 27th at 7:00 p.m., right next door to the convention center,...

CartoDB is always happy to support journalists and researchers in their efforts to tell stories through data analysis and visualization. In the past we’ve hosted events like, GeoJourNews for journalists and new media to showcase their work, share lessons learned, and discuss new trends in data journalism. Last week, the...

Last Saturday night the largest mass shooting in U.S. history happened in an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando – an act of hate killing 50 and injuring 50 more. It was an act of hate towards gays that has brought the community together, once again, to show their strength in numbers....

It’s that time of year again! As hoards of geospatial professionals migrate to the Esri User Conference in San Diego this year, we at CartoDB are getting ready once again to celebrate the geospatial industry and foster a culture of location analysis that looks towards the future. The truth is,...

Note: This post has been written in collaboration with Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual, Deputy Assistant Director of the Spanish Centre for Geographical Information. National Mapping Agencies are organizations with lots of data to offer to citizens and organizations like thematic data but also Reference Data (data used to georeference other...

CartoDB has been participating and sponsoring the premier conference on free and open source software for geospatial, better known as FOSS4G-NA, for several years now and this year hasn’t been no exception! This year we had three really fun talks at FOSS4G NA. If you have a little bit of...

Last week we were excited to sponsor for the first time, Data Stories, a podcast on data visualization. We are big fans of the podcast and are very proud to support their work. Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner have worked over the years to create a series of shows that...

The Data Observatory contains a wealth of information available for exploration and data augmentation. In this post we will look at an available dataset provided by the U.S. Census that is very much in the news: United States Congressional Districts. First let’s retrieve all of the U.S. Congressional Districts and...

Come join us for a day full of fascinating talks from some innovative and talented journalists! GeoJourNews is on June 8th GeoJourNews 2016 and is a media and technology conference catered to journalists to showcase the power of visualization and mapping. Attendees will hear from developers, journalists, and activists from...

We previously announced that CARTO will be a platinum sponsor at the Alteryx Inspire conference happening in San Diego from June 6-9th. As we approach our joint workshop with Alteryx and Boston Consulting Group, we wanted to give you a sneak peek into using CARTO with Alteryx!

For data scientists, it’s very important to share the way they work their magic – so others can check and iterate over it. Let’s face it, analysis is one of those tasks that when done in a collaborative environment is much better and easier. Starting today, exporting and sharing your...

Today we are releasing a new CARTO technology called the Data Observatory which gives our users access to some of the world’s most valuable location data. The Data Observatory makes it easier than ever before to analyze and extract insights from your own location data by attaching data-driven context to...

How we view, collect, and process data has gone through a revolutionary transformation. Roughly 45 years ago, the most widely disseminated image of the Earth was captured by NASA, The Blue Marble. Eight years ago, smartphones were invented – forever changing the way we take images and store and collect...

From the very beginning, CartoDB has focused and researched how to make visual exploration of location data easier and more compelling. For most of that research, we rely on standard languages that are easy to use and learn, such as SQL and CartoCSS. Now, we are taking CartoCSS a step...

Next month CartoDB will be at Alteryx Inspire 2016 Conference, in San Diego, CA from June 6-9, as a platinum sponsor! Come visit booth #P2 to view our demos and learn how CartoDB can enhance your data workflows and analysis by providing even more value through location intelligence.

When visualizing, on a map, tens of thousands or millions of points in a dataset, data points may be spread all around the world, or be confined to a single country, region, city, or even some smaller area. In any case, there will be a zoom level in which the...

In practice, journalist require the most trusty and reliable information to disseminate messages to the public. There is no better way to do that than by aggregating facts, or data, and analyzing and providing that analysis in the most accessible way possible. To do so, journalists across sectors and media...

Next week CartoDB will be at Qonnections 2016 as a Silver Sponsor for the first time. Come visit booth #801 to see our demos and learn how CartoDB can enhance your Qlik® business by providing even more value through location intelligence.

This is going to sound extreme, but without open source software there would be no internet as we know it. That’s right. Everyday we utilize a technology built on collaborative software that only gets better and more powerful the more open and secure it becomes. Each year a conference celebrating...

This year CartoDB will be at the Experience Fighters 2016 — the 3rd annual national meeting of Experience Design and Innovation at the Gran Teatro Principe Pío, here in Madrid, from May 11th to 12th! CartoDB is partneringwith #EXF, alongside with Designit, in order to gather the best creative professionals...

##Disaster requires quick action! Maps are an incredibly powerful tool for humanitarian crisis response. One of the most compelling phenomena in recent times has emerged from global communi ties committed to solving some of the many challenges that arise from timely humanitarian response. Ground-breaking initiatives such as OpenStreetMap have reframed...

Have you ever shared a location in WhatsApp? That list of close-by places comes from a geocoding service. When you request a car service, like Didi, the route that the drivers take comes from a routing service. Have you ordered a pizza in Seamless? The maps that show you where...

Last year the Ambassadors Program started as an experiment, with select CartoDB users receiving slight upgrades to their accounts. Since then, we have been watching our program grow and find ourselves constantly amazed at the level of talent and passion of our Ambassadors. We like to think that the upgraded...

Every Sales Manager and CMO needs to understand how their marketing campaigns influence the bottom-line. Unfortunately, tracking the impact of a campaign is often easier said than done. Birdseye, a seamless connector between Salesforce and CartoDB, aims to help. Birdseye adds geographic context to your Salesforce data for a deeper...

We are very excited to share details on our upcoming trip to Tokyo, organized together with OSGeo Japan and Pacific Spatial Solutions. Javier de la Torre and Jaime de Mora will be there for a week full of events and meetings.

Mapping and data analysis are shaping the ways in which news and important stories are shared and understood. A quick browse of our journalism and new media gallery truly places into perspective the emerging practice of data-driven journalism. At the core of data-journalism, we at CartoDB are building a culture...

Data velocity, variety, and volume are growing every second as more and more systems, from satellites, drones, to mobile devices, are designed for data gathering. We call this massive accumulation of data, Big Data. How we come to understand this collection of data can no longer be dependent on traditional...

CartoDB loves going new places and exploring new things. That’s why we take risks with our technology and platform, which ultimately provide new insights for you and for us! So it is not surprising that we will be heading to South Korea and Japan, as we work to expand all...

CartoDB loves going new places and exploring new things. That’s why we take risks with our technology and platform, which ultimately provide new insights for you and for us! So it is not surprising that we will be heading to South Korea. While we are there, please don’t hesitate to...

' The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an incredible amount of data available to people, and the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) microdata is a whopper of a dataset. RSEI is an air model which organizes results from environmantal data collected. Specifically, it tallies the quantities of release and transfer...

What is constantly increasing its volume, variety, and velocity and greatly effects your business’s bottom line if not properly utilized? Big Data! At CartoDB we know just how important the amount of data that you collect, how you understand and analyze that data, and how that analysis turns into better...

CartoDB is really excited about the upcoming FOSS4G-Argentina! Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from April 5-9, and organized by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional of Argentina, CartoDB is a proud sponsor of this event that brings together decision makers from government institutions, IDERA members, universities, and state employees.

Planning where to strategically go next can be a daunting task. There are numerous factors to consider, like time. At major festivals, like SXSW, planning how long it takes to move from place to place doesn’t have to be so intimidating anymore. Time and Distance Isolines (also called isochrones), a...

CartoDB began 2016 in a disruptive way by expanding location intelligence around new industries, countries, and devices. To continue to disrupt this space we need amazing explorers to join our team! We still have about 10 open positions for different departments, such as Marketing, Sales, and Product, to work in...

Last month at MWC 2016 we made two announcements that show just how strong CartoDB’s presence is in the location intelligence world. One of the breaking news items revealed was our big data solution, Deep Insights!

When calculating distances on maps, often we simply compute the ‘as the crow flies’ distance: the length of the straight line that links our origin and destination. For human-centric uses, this is rarely the correct approach as it ignores the fact that we cannot walk on water or pass through...

CartoDB happily moved to Bushwick from Williamsburg last September. Our office is in the middle of the industrial zone, with vast spaces around and graffiti art on the walls, and has ample room for up to 120 people where we love to host events, as well as the outdoor space...

What a year! We can still feel our presence in Barcelona after MWC 2016 and we keep coming back for more of that great energy. This time, Sergio Álvarez will be speaking at eFintech Show. CartoDB is one of the 30 most disruptive Fintech Startups selected by an expert group...

You might have seen the blog post we produced a little while ago looking at the L train closure and the possible impact that might have on L commuters to manhattan. One of the most visually striking elements of that post were the maps where we showed walking routes for...

This map shows the distribution of people in the US who have a problem with both their sight and their hearing. It was made using US Census data but if you go looking for sight and vision data in your copy of the US Census files, you aren’t going to...

Are you ready to look at maps in an unorthodox way and expand your cartographic horizons? The “Creative Cartography and Beers on March 11, in Paris, will do just that. And more importantly, seek to establish bridges between mapping and other fields - particularly creative coding and design.

Using CartoDB.js and the CartoDB Platform, you get the best of both worlds: powerful GIS technologies with no setup required combined with the complete freedom provided by the HTML5 stack. It’s so addictive in fact, that at some point you’ll be building a ton of interactive maps without even realizing...

Location intelligence is an often heard term, but what it means and how it can benefit businesses, institutions and individuals may not be immediately obvious. Location intelligence is more than analysis of geospatial information or geographic information systems alone, it is the capability to visualize spatial data to identify and...

NSGIC’s Midyear Conference at the Lowe’s Annapolis Hotel In Annapolis, Maryland, is almost upon us and CartoDB is proud to be a first-year, bronze-level sponsor for this event and the annual conference in October.

We are pleased to announce that CARTO has acquired Nutiteq, a pioneer in native mobile mapping. Nutiteq joins us with more than 8 years of experience developing mobile applications and will provide a great foundation for new CARTO mobile SDKs. CARTO’s goal is to empower everyone to take advantage of...

As we ease into 2016, we feel reflective about the changes and their magnitude in our industry. For instance, just a few of weeks ago, one of the most popular geospatial initiatives came to an end, with Google deprecating Google Maps Engine (GME). In response, CartoDB created a platform that...

Mobile World Congress 2016 is now just a month away! We are happy to participate again in the world’s largest conference for the mobile industry, organized by GSMA. This global event in the mobile tech industry will take place in Barcelona at Fira Gran Via from February 22-25.

CartoDB is very excited about the upcoming FOSS4G-NA conference! We’ve given sessions at the conference for the last 2 years and hope 2016 won’t be an exception. Held in Raleigh, North Carolina from May 2-5, this is the premiere conference for free, open source software designed for geospatial in North...

The news heard by millions of straphangers around New York City last week was Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) proposed repair to the blighted Canarsie Tunnel, the vital connection used by the L train to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn under the East River. Due to extensive damage caused by flooding from...

The NYPD recently made waves with an open data release, sharing fairly detailed crime data about the “seven major felonies” for the first 3 quarters of 2015. The dataset has a row for every incident, including location (as lat/lon), date/time, etc. However, as with many crime datasets, the point locations have been adjusted to mid-block or nearest intersection so that you can’t determine exactly where the reported crime occurred.

Last week’s Partner Summit was a smash hit! With representatives from more than 50 partner companies, ranging from small geo-consulting firms to large systems integrators to other SaaS businesses, this two-day event had all the right voices. Here’s a quick recap and some thoughts on the future.

Earlier this year we announced a pizza-love fueled commitment to supporting our worldwide Maptime communities. From our very own Maptime meetup in New York City, we found that the best way to inspire great work and foster community was by coming together around the workspace table and whirring laptops to...

We are happy to announce our new CartoDB Ambassadors page — we want to reward our our influential mappers for all their great work in CartoDB! As an Ambagitssador mapper, you will be able to display a portfolio of maps on our site, with increased visibility in the mapping community....

On December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the Madrid Municipal Congress Centre will host one of the most important events in the digital sector in Spain, the International Digital Content Forum (FICOD) 2015. This year the attendees of the conference will be greeted with visualizations by CartoDB on a giant screen....

All over the world, tech giants and startups are reshaping the future of the digital economy. There is no doubt that the web is changing the way we do business. More and more, what happens in the digital space will affect how and what we consume.

CartoDB recently moved to an amazing new office in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With over 25 employees, we were bursting at the seams in our Williamsburg office and needed to find a spot that would allow our team to expand into our next phase.

Sharing insights with your peers and colleagues just got easier. CartoDB now permits organization administrators to set up user groups to share data-driven visualizations and datasets with our permissions management system.

CartoDB’s strength is its agility working alongside other excellent tools in a mapping workflow. QGIS (Quantum GIS) is one of those tools, and its position as a no-cost open-source GIS software leader makes it an accessible, and affordable choice in exploring data. Now, the two can work together much more...

CartoDB has developed a new connector to better integrate your business data – now upload and connect files to Box. Just plug any Box file into CartoDB by selecting the source on the connect dataset window.

Looking for a digital service that offers an understanding of data complexity that leads to smart decisions, that make people’s lives easier? Looking for a conference that can offer all these things too?

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has just partnered with Amazon Web Services to make a huge amount of historic and current radar data publicly available. In this tutorial we will show you how to use CartoDB to map this data to explore weather!

At CartoDB we listen to what our users need and want. We are constantly brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, but it is always the very best in user experience that we hope to deliver. This month we’ve launched two brand new sections on our website: Explore and /me!...

To an outside observer, serving a population of 150,000 map creators and millions of map viewers might seem like a simple matter, but to us it’s a big complex deal, and we’re always looking for ways to make the CartoDB platform faster!

If you’ve ever seen an animated map on the web, or read our technical blogs for the past year, you might be familiar with Torque, CartoDB’s library for animating time-series data on maps. You can already build a range of Torque maps with point data in our Editor GUI: plotting...

Here at CartoDB we are always looking for new ways to enable our educational communities. From our commitment to Education and Research in the Classroom to our popular Educator’s Nights and workshops at universities, we’re working hard to spark new ideas in geospatial visualization and analysis across all professional fields....

FIWARE is a public-private partnership launched by the European Union in 2014 to promote the development of smart cities apps based on open standards and open source code. By providing tools and components in areas such as data management, Internet of Things interoperability, and information security, the initiative seeks to...

Qlik Sense users no longer have to rely on just the classic way of visualizing important decisions. Now in addition to graphs, pie charts, and other visual analytics, Qlik Sense users can use CartoDB’s slick Torque animated maps as well as additional visualization renderings. CartoDB for Qlik enables the creation...

The City of Las Vegas goes by many names: Sin City, the City of Lights - but this month it will take a new name - ‘Location Intelligence’ Metropolis! A whole new world of opportunity exists in your data and for three days, over 150 sessions, with 4000 Splunk enthusiasts...

The fall season provides a lot of fresh starts for many. The heat of summer and laxity subside as school semesters commence and vacations wind down. With these endings come new beginnings and the time for civic engagement has never been more rife.

About a month ago, we announced Insight, our first ever data and design competition in conjunction with Measure, a New York City exhibit by Storefront for Art and Architecture. With the competition close at the end of last month, we wanted to thank all of the teams who submitted projects...

The ‘smarter city’ is all the rage, and while a buzzing megapolis may have the complexity and resources to deploy a mayoral ‘geek squad’ or install flocks of sensors, the average town has to fulfill its duties on a much tighter budget. We’re all about tools that bring location intelligence...

Join CartoDB, from September 15 - 17, as we immerse ourselves in the historic city of Stuttgart, Germany at the INTERGEO Conference and Trade Fair. We will spend three days engrossed in geodesy, geoinformation, land management, and cartography. INTERGEO has special space in the hearts of map scientist and offers...

We are excited to announce the close of $23 million in Series B financing to expand CartoDB’s mission, enabling anyone to map their world’s data and leverage the power of location. The funding is led by Accel Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures as well as our earlier investors, Earlybird...

Seoul, South Korea, the world’s most wired and number one ranked tech ready city is hosting one of the largest global gatherings focused on open source geospatial solutions. Next week CartoDB is attending FOSS4G for the second consecutive year.

CartoDB began with just a dream and soon, we’ll put miles under our wings (or elephant ears) and cross the United States to experience the power of that vision. Our CEO Javier de la Torre, along with VP of Sales Alon Vernikov and EMEA Sales Director Jaime de Mora, will...

You’ve surely noticed that we’ve redone some parts of the web app to support some of our new features, so that creating maps is now easier, faster, and more straightforward than ever. As part of these improvements we’ve rebuilt the way you are able to add layers to your maps....

Late last month, we had the pleasure of hosting an event devoted to real-time data mapping, a common request among our community of cartographers and data journalists. For every election map, crisis tracker, or geo-reporting tool, there is a strong need for resources that support consistent data updates and we’re...

I remember this one time at band camp, it seemed things were going so well. It was a wet, hot, good ol’ American summer. Possibly the only thing missing was a proper web mapping class, appropriately scheduled after friendship bracelet making class. So in the spirit of awesome summer camps,...

There have been many exciting happenings this month at CartoDB. From growing our partnership with Code for America, to our upcoming CartoCamp at NYU it’s been a busy week for our community! Earlier this month we also announced Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront...

Once a year the worlds of tech and music converge in a celebration of all things cool, hip, and innovative. South by Southwest is one of the most important tech events in the United States. Last year, this popular festival received more than 3,500 entries - making panel selection a...

As our first ever data and design competition ramps up, we at CartoDB and Storefront for Art and Architecture are working hard to make both the competition and the Measure exhibit a big success with our all-star panel of competition judges! In case you’ve been under a rock the past...

As mappers, you might be familiar with a few theories of cosmology related to how our earth supports itself, the less scientific of them being the most fascinating. In Ancient Greece and Rome, Atlas was the titan who lifted the earth and sky. In A Brief History of Time, the...

At the invitation of Eva Adler and Norman Shamas, I had the pleasure of giving a workshop on CartoDB’s real-time mapping capabilities for the TechChange class Mapping for Social Good. Eva Adler’s course covers an impressive array of material on web mapping related to global development work.

We love our community of mappers, designers, and data-afficionados.
Which is why CartoDB is proud to announce: Insight. A Data and Design Competition in conjunction with Measure, a Storefront for Art and Architecture exhibit in New York City!

International Geomatics Week 2015 will take place in Bogotá’s Whyndam Hotel from August 10 - 14, 2015 as part of the Agustín Codazzi Geographical Institute’s 80th anniversary celebrations. The event’s focus is “Geospatial Information for Peacebuilding,” and will consist of talks, workshops, and networking events about innovative cloud-based geospatial technologies,...

Sometimes datasets don’t contain any geospatial columns, but they have names, IP addresses, zip codes, or other information that can be translated into coordinates. CartoDB is able to assist you with this type of data.

CartoDB has always been a big advocate of civic technology. From our partnerships with organizations such as Code for America and rapidly growing grant programs for startups, climate action, and non-profits, we’re always looking for ways to help civic tech organizations and companies excel at what they do best. Recently,...

Matt Forrest is a map, transit, and technology enthusiast, and now he’s joined our New York office as our new Account Manager. Matt will put his business, project management, and consulting experience to work as he helps our customers analyze their data and build applications with CartoDB.

Remember the days before cell phones, when you used to have to wait around at home to take a call? Or when the only way you could buy books, groceries, and clothes was by physically going to a store? Or when you had to select the best way to visualize...

Ahoy, Mappers! Join us from 11-7 PST today, July 20 and 10-6 PST tomorrow, July 21 at the San Diego Harbor. We’re un-conferencing and what better way than on a boat! The UCboat is located here just steps from the convention center and the EsriUC conference, and one minute from San Diego Harbor House. Take out ‘yer telescopes and spy a different view on all things GIS. Come aboard for margaritas, coffee, and fun in the San Diego sun!

Some companies ask their users to follow them, but we love following our users. Since the Esri User Conference will be happening in San Diego next week, we’ll be there to celebrate the geospatial industry. We’ll be at the Half Door Brewing Company, right in the heart of the Gaslamp...

One of the biggest challenges of the 2008 global financial crisis was the inability for financial institutions to handle risk management in a rapidly changing demographic. For businesses to progress post-crisis, re-imagining business intelligence and bringing their companies up-to-date with new technology became an imperative. CartoDB’s financial risk analysis has...

A few months ago we announced our brand new free basemaps—Positron and Dark Matter—built with OpenStreetMap data and designed with the help of our friends at Stamen; your data will absolutely pop when using them.

CartoDB has always been committed to empowering communities, people, and organizations that seek to use mapping and data for civic prosperity and growth. From our long-running climate and non profit grants, to sponsoring mapping meetups across the country, we are always looking for new ways to support efforts that re-think...

Brad is the newest member of our business development team. He will be working with our partners to ensure that we’re helping them succeed in building fantastic location analysis tools with CartoDB. Most recently, he managed partner relationships at Google.

Roger worked at Accela as the Director of Solution Sales Consultants for North America. Before that he worked as a Public Sector Employee. Creating statewide GIS programs to inform and improve critical land use and environmental planning decisions. Roger earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Sciences, followed by a Master’s...

With the news that Google is shuttering its Google Maps Engine product (GME) in less than a year, many new clients have come to CartoDB in search of a “new home” for their geospatial needs. For organizations still looking at migrating from GME to CartoDB, our partners over at CloudSherpas...

With the deprecation of Google Earth API and Earth Enterprise we receive a lot of questions about how CartoDB can be a viable alternative to provide a 3D environment for geographical information. On this post we share with you a new iteration after our first post. Publishing 3D geodata with...

In the high-speed world of data journalism it’s always important to stay on top of the latest story. Being able to quickly and beautifully visualize information in creative ways is essential! That’s why our team here at CartoDB is committed to not only providing the go-to world-class journalism mapping tool,...

This weekend almost 80 people gathered in a nice country house located in the middle of the park of El Alamillo in Seville at Geocamp ES to discuss open data, open source and geospatial information. Geocamp ES 2015 is the third edition of a conference series following the lead of...

"When people on airplanes ask me what I do, I used to say I was a physicist, which ended the discussion. I once said I was a cosmologist, but they started asking me about makeup, and the title 'astronomer' gets confused with astrologer. Now I say I make maps." If...

Early June was a grand month for conferences in the civic tech and mapping scene. Reviewing the online documentation for the Personal Democracy Forum, State of the Map, and the concurrent OKFN meetups reveals a healthy two weeks of activity on the USA-EST front. With so much hyper-local happening, we...

As you may know, last week the United Nations Headquarters in New York City hosted the monumental State of The Map US Conference, and for a few days, the CartoDB team and map lovers from around the world got together for some incredible events and happenings across the city! You...

In the second addition of our series on clever mapping with GDELT data (see this post from last week), we wanted to take on some more advanced mapping techniques. Again, we welcome Kalev H. Leetaru of the GDELT Project to explain how using geospatial information about journalism can build a...

Just over the East River, from our Brooklyn office, State of the Map US 2015 kicked off at the United Nations headquarters with a weekend packed full of mapping oriented talks, activities, and events. We at CartoDB were excited to take part and engage with a community filled with innovative...